Today during Animation 2, I finished my SkillsUSA project. I am satisfied with how the render has turned out. This project has been in progress for months at this point, and I feel like I put all of my effort into making this. I do feel like I could improve some things, such as spacing …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA project. So far, I have made the snow completely, so all that’s left is to finish up a couple other textures, import the trees, and make the lighting. There was a problem with the snow at first because it was distorting the entire ground plane, …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA Technical Render. So far, I have been able to texture the other logs. I haven’t had many problems with Maya today until I tried to use the Render View. Maya would freeze any time I tried to look at it through the render view, and …
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Today in Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA technical render project. So far, I have finished UV Mapping all of the objects that I needed to and was able to make a wood bark texture, as well as a bump map for it. I have not had any issues with this so far, …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA project. I was able to add the window details and make mountains in the background today. I didn’t get much done because I was having a difficult time trying to figure out how to make the trees, but I ended up moving on from that …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA project. As of right now, I have almost finished modeling everything. Soon, I will move on to UV mapping and texturing, but for now, I still have to finish up with modeling. I haven’t had any trouble with Maya deciding not to work today, so …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA technical render. So far, I was able to finish touching up the cabin model for smoothing, smooth parts of the model, smooth the fireplace and chimney, make a (hopefully) placeholder tree, and begin making a door. I haven’t really had trouble with much until this …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued modeling assets for my SkillsUSA project. So far, I have been able to finish the chimney and started fixing the models for when they get smoothed. I ended up having to deal with Maya freezing consistently when putting in an edge loop at the end of one of the …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on the modeling for my SkillsUSA project. I managed to finish modeling the cabin and began making a fireplace and chimney. I am proud of how the overall project is coming along so far, and I am satisfied with how the fireplace looks so far. Now that I …
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Today during Animation 2, I continued working on my SkillsUSA project. So far, I have been able to add a window to the front of the cabin and start making the rest of the supports at the top of the cabin. I feel like it is turning out well as of right now, and I …
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